This document provides resources for students at HSU to explore academic majors. It outlines the Majors & Programs website, Advising Center, and Career Center as key resources, noting majors vary significantly in unit requirements but many allow general education courses to double-count. Students are encouraged to visit department websites and faculty, examine sample 4-year plans, and participate in extracurricular clubs to learn more about options. The advising deadline to declare a major is 45 units completed.

1. Exploring Majors at HSU

2.  Majors & Programs website
 Advising Center: Advising for undeclared majors
 Career Center: “What can I do with this major?”
 Career Assessments
 Major Departments
 Clubs & Activities
Resources for exploring

3.  Significantly vary in size (33 – 100 units)
 Core courses (GE double-counts)
 Options / pathways
 Minors
 Classes with labs / fieldwork
How majors are organized

4. Majors & Programs website

5. List of all majors at HSU

6. Find information about a specific major

7. Example: Environmental Management
& Protection (EMP)

8. EMP program requirements

9. EMP major

10. EMP fact sheet

11. EMP
fact sheet

12. EMP course descriptions

13. EMP course descriptions cont…

14. EMP 4-year plans

15. EMP 4-year plan, page 1

16. EMP 4-year plan, page 2

17. 5-year course rotation link

18. EMP 5-year course rotations

19. All 5-year course rotations
https://www.humboldt.edu/courserotations/

20. Career Center

21. What can I do with this major?

22. What can I do with a major in EMP?

23. What can I do with EMP?

24. Career Assessments
 Strong Interest Inventory
 Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
 Jungian Typology
 Strengths Quest
Visit the Career Center, Gist Hall, room 114

25.  Meet with the department chair or faculty
advisor
 Visit the department website
 Talk to students in the major
 Wander the halls
Explore major departments

26. Clubs & Activities

27. What-if DARS
Review a sample DARS to see what courses you would take,
or have already completed, for a specific major.

28. What-if DARS: Look up plan

29. What-if DARS: EMP

30. What-if DARS: EMP
major double-counts

31.  Many GE courses are introductory major
courses (double-counts)
 Lower division GE areas C and D courses are
good choices for exploring majors
 Specific area B courses double-count for
majors in science, math, business, and social
sciences
How GE courses can help

32.  You must choose your major by 45 units
 After 90 units, you must request permission
to change your major
 Undeclared freshmen tend to change majors
less often than other freshmen
Things to consider

33. Advising Center
Come see us soon!
Student & Business Services (SBS), room 295
Phone: (707) 826-5224
Email: advise@humboldt.edu
Website: www.humboldt.edu/advise

34. Gist Hall (GH), room 114
Phone: (707) 826-3341
Email: career@humboldt.edu
Website: www.humboldt.edu/career
Career Center